CBAHI – A Saudi Approach to Improved Healthcare Through Smart Technology
Saudi Arabia is transforming its healthcare sector through privatization. Moreover, this transformation occurs under tight monitoring by the Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutes (CBAHI).
CBAHI aims to improve the patient, staff and visitor safety, service level and experience offered by all accredited institutes in the Kingdom. Additionally, it mandates the availability of tools to report errors during the service offering process.
Penguin’s CBAHI Compliance Solutions
Penguin has been refining its solutions to offer healthcare facilities tools that help satisfy such CBAHI accreditation requirements. Our solutions address key areas:
Preventing and Reporting Medical Errors and Improving Safety:
- Ensuring that surgery is always done at the right place
- Moreover, giving a newborn to the correct parents
- Newborn safety using electronic tagging immediately from birth
- Furthermore, ensuring compliance with infection control standards
Improving Patient Experience:
- Offering external and internal wayfinding signage to assist in navigation
- Additionally, this includes a navigate from home to clinic feature
- Clear access and egress wayfinding for authorized hospital staff
- Furthermore, availability of wayfinding boards and enquiry points at entrances
Enhancing Operational Readiness:
- Neonatal tracking system to protect against abduction
- Moreover, tracking the sterilization of medical equipment
- Nurse tracking to support nurse calling systems and nurse safety
- Additionally, equipment dwell times in dirty and clean rooms
- Furthermore, system to support facility managers in tracking and scheduling maintenance for medical equipment
Supporting CBAHI Standards in Saudi Healthcare
These are interesting times. Moreover, Penguin is proud to be working with healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia to address these CBAHI compliance challenges.
To learn more about how Penguin can help your facility meet CBAHI accreditation standards, please send us an email to [email protected]
